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Re: Caching of PID/TID after fork

From: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
To: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval dot zanella at linaro dot org>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 17:04:36 +0100
Subject: Re: Caching of PID/TID after fork
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On 11/04/2016 05:03 PM, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:



On 04/11/2016 13:14, Florian Weimer wrote:

On 10/10/2016 08:03 PM, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:

+  /* Some sanity checks for clone syscall: returned ppid should be currernt


Typo: “currernt”

On its own, this approach looks okay, but I am worried that it sends a message that it's okay to clone processes without additional measures to protect PRNGs and things like that.

Florian


I am not sure if you referring you to my initial RFC patch or the one
complete I sent [1] since you replied to the original thread.


Oh, I'll have a look at the updated patch then.

Florian

References:
- Re: Caching of PID/TID after fork
  - From: Florian Weimer
- Re: Caching of PID/TID after fork
  - From: Adhemerval Zanella

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